Monkeytype

I write on blank Das Keyboards, but my touch typing is a self-taught 6½-finger system, so I am not a fast typist.

I get by (programming is not limited by typing speed anyway), but I was looking for something to teach my son the basics.

Monkeytype seems to hit the marks

  • support Danish words and keyboard
  • some gamification
  • free

Lettuce out-of-order

Repro of the bug causing headlines for Nordnet, when it caused mixup of users sessions. I have participated in troubleshooting similar bugs before with similar impact (on a smaller scale though; not financial data).

https://github.com/nordnet/lettuce-out-of-order

uv, an extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust.

Maybe this will emerge at the top to replace all the half-baked Python dependency/tool solutions?

Install with

winget install astral-sh.uv
uv python install
cd demo-project
uv init .
uv run main.py
uv add art

and run main.py as

from art import *

def main():
    print("Hello from demo-project!")
    art_1=art("coffee")
    print(art_1)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

https://docs.astral.sh/uv/

Micro-bit and Coding Pirates

I had a lot of fun helping one of my sons build a small car with micro-bit and Makecode (hardware and intro courtesy of Coding Pirates). Hats off to the volunteers that makes it possible.

fDeploy, the “dogma” Octopus Deploy alternative

fDeploy finally reached a public release. It will be interesting to see the price point and how well it works in practice. There is definitely a “small Windows shop” hole in the market that Octopus Deploy proper is leaving behind with their new pricing…

CRUD apps are good business

You have got to respect the staying power of Ruby on Rails, and he is certainly right that many apps are needlessly complicated by the factors listed

https://justin.searls.co/links/2025-02-22-crud-apps-are-good-business/

(also happened upon Real World Rails

Prompt Injection Attacks for Dummies

LLM security is hard, and with agents with access to affect their surroundings it becomes even harder. This list demonstrates some of the issues you need to take into account today.

https://devanshbatham.hashnode.dev/prompt-injection-attacks-for-dummies

Threat model examples

I like to look at real-world examples to get a feel for the process and the tradeoffs as other people see it. And the simple approach listed in the other link looks interesting (Danish).

https://da.dbd.au.dk/c/tools/trusselsmodellering

https://github.com/TalEliyahu/Threat_Model_Examples?tab=readme-ov-file

Infomaniak, a non-US mail/drive/docs SaaS

Interesting. For now I am not considering switching, but it is nice to know there is a non-US provider alternative here, at a reasonable price, with Infomaniak kSuite

Giveaway words for LLMs

Idiosyncrasies in Large Language Models via Ethan Mollick

Guix

It seems NIX has some GNU competition

https://guix.gnu.org/